Office Assistant 2 - Keyboarding, (NYS HELPS), Central New York Psychiatric Center, Elmira Satell...

New York State Office of Mental Health • Contract with Option to Extend • New York, Elmira, United States • 14h ago

Job Description Minimum Qualifications

Are you interested in starting or advancing your career with New York State? Do enjoy work assignments that include typing and data entry? Office Assistant 2 Keyboarding positions provide excellent opportunities for advancement and growth. Candidates from outside or within State Service can apply.

Minimum Qualifications:

Candidates from outside State Service can be considered for hire under the Hiring for Emergency Limited Placement Statewide (HELPS) program as an Office Assistant 2 Keyboarding if they have one year of clerical experience where most of the work time is spent performing keyboarding, data entry, or chart compilation or arrangement and must pass a keyboarding test; 30 words per minute with at least 96% accuracy.

OR

Candidates within State Service can be considered for a competitive class appointment if they are reachable on the current Office Assistant 2 Keyboarding eligible list.

OR

Candidates from within State Service can be considered transfer to a competitive class position if they have one year of permanent competitive or 55-b/55-c service in a title eligible for transfer under Section 70.1 of the Civil Service Law.

OR

In accordance with Section 52.7 of the Civil Service Law, this notice advises all employees of the Office of Mental Health of our intention to conduct a non-competitive promotion examination for the position of Office Assistant 2 Keyboarding at Central New York Psychiatric Center. Permanent appointment may be made by non-competitive promotion of an applicant who meets the position s minimum qualifications if all requirements of non-competitive promotion are met.

The promotion field for the Office Assistant 2 Keyboarding position consists of candidates who have 1 year of permanent service as an Office Assistant 1 including all language parenthetics.

Duties Description

As an Office Assistant 2 Keyboarding, you will perform a wide variety of complex clerical and administrative support activities, including:

Typing, proofreading, reviewing, and correcting correspondence and documents
Transcribing hand-written materials
Gathering data for charts, graphs, and tables
Preparing routine reports

This position is at Central New York Psychiatric Center's Elmira Satellite Unit located on the grounds of Elmira Correctional Facility in Chemung County.

Additional Comments

All OMH employees receive a generous benefits package including:

NYS medical, dental, & vision insurance
Access to tuition assistance programs
Excellent opportunities for advancement & professional growth
Paid time off 13 paid vacation days in the first year, 5 paid personal days, 13 paid holidays, & paid sick leave
NYS Retirement programs

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